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Is there any consistency to her position statements ?

One minute she's socially authoritarian, insisiting that vandals should be senetenced to life in military servitude for minor transgressions, the next minute she's socially liberal on gay marriage.

Has learnt from the British Labour party that a cheap headline is better than no headline. Wonder if she'll learn the leson more apparent every day that if you base your policies on headline-grabbing, then sooner or later the headline will grab the policy.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jun 20th, 2006 at 04:55:05 AM EST
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Maybe it's a Continental thing, but I could imagine German politician holding similar positions.

Morally, gay rights and an authoritarian youth policy are 2 different kettle of fish. The former is about doctrine and unreasoned social prejudice, while the latter appeals to voters' fear for their own safety and property.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Jun 20th, 2006 at 05:10:53 AM EST
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Has learnt from the British Labour party that a cheap headline is better than no headline. Wonder if she'll learn the leson more apparent every day that if you base your policies on headline-grabbing, then sooner or later the headline will grab the policy.

Unfortunately. Though Jérôme convinced me that she is rather sly in here media politics, e.g. that she could appear both centrist and leftist by morphing a common right-wing ciriticism into a left-wing one, but I still fear where this could lead. Someone quoted weeks ago an American's interview with here where she proved to be clueless about American freelancers' working conditions, and I'd fear if her knowledge is so superficial in other matters too.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Jun 20th, 2006 at 05:25:16 AM EST
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